Archive for the ‘Services Outsourcing Trends’ Category
Friday, August 24th, 2007
I recently met with representatives of a business development team of a major lighting and consumer electronics manufacturer. The Board of Directors dispatched the Team to develop a projection of what would be the best Chinese cities for the company to invest in over the next five years. The Team ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I recently had a charming visit from representatives of Ascendas, a commercial realestate developer. Ms. Ge and Mr. Fan are based out of Shanghai, and traveled into Suzhou to chat about developments of the company throughout Asia. I was already acquainted with Ms. Ge from the AMCHAM Shanghai Conference at ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, China R&D, Services Outsourcing Trends, Nanjing, Suzhou, Dalian, Hangzhou, China Development Trends | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
I was like a kid in the States who excitedly waited for Christmas and the promise of ... toys! Now that I'm older and know there is no Santa Claus, I wait with breathless anticipation for the articles in major magazines in which I have been quoted. In this instance, ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Knock wood.
I've been approached by two magazines in the past week for interviews about the China marketplace. One magazine is the China International Business Magazine. The Magazine is working up an article about the nascent Business Process Outsourcing industry in China. Some of the questions included: What’s the current condition ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
The June 2007 issue of the China Economic Review has a feature article on the Investment Trends of Suzhou, especially around the R&D, IT and BPO spaces. The name of the article is The Starbucks Factor. I was quoted extensively in the article (happily, because nothing seemed to be taken ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
The Guan Ji Temple in Wuhu, Anhui Province, is a beautiful compact temple plaza atop a small hill in the diffused center of town. It was the perfect spot to which to take a dawn walk from the hotel at which I was staying during my team’s site selection survey. ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
In the previous log entry I explained the 20/30 Problem as the under/un-employment of people in their 20’s and 30’s in China, both university-educated and otherwise. A local Chinese government administrator presented to me the problem is of such importance to the Chinese national government precisely because it is at ...
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
“Employment for people in their twenties and thirties is one of the problems China has to solve,” a Chinese government administrator told me. “We call it the 20/30 problem.”
The 20/30 problem is critical to the success of the economic and social reforms China is making now. Without employment of ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
I spent half a day last week with local government administrators of the Suzhou Industrial Park International Science Park (SIPIP). Actually, I live quite close to the Science Park, about a three minute drive from there. But the Park is quite different from the rest of SIP, which is a ...
Posted in China BPO, China R&D, China IT Outsourcing, Services Outsourcing Trends, China Development Trends, Suzhou, Doing Business in China | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Nine Chinese ministries have signed on to the proposition that by 2010 all total software and service-related exports should be at least US$10 billion, according to a China Tech News report.
The ministries posit in their document titled “Guiding Proposals On Devleoping Software and Related Service Export” that growth ...
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